Category: Off the Wall

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. -- John F. Kennedy JFK's most famous line, spoken at his presidential inauguration in 1961, is often bandied about as an admonition to serve your government...

And this administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America... The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose it. -- Lyndon Johnson, 1964 This is the richest country on Earth and we have 40 million in...

The Christmas turkey has been reduced to a gnawed carcass of bones and the sinewy dark meat that no one wants. The plastic tree has been crammed back into the attic and - we hope - you have recovered from your New Year's hangover. The 2019 Cute Kittens calendar on the...

Christmas songs arrive in three boxes, each cardboard container uniquely wrapped and shoved under the Christmas tree where the winking lights cast a festive glow on the shiny paper. The first box, wrapped in purple and gold, contains songs that celebrate the birth of...

I never knew my father’s father. He was a lineman for the county, and got himself fried long before I arrived. No one wanted to talk about him. I know him best through a paper bag full of newspaper clippings that he cut from the Nashville Tennessean. He was a baseball...

Tuesday has no feel. - Newman Tuesday is the most nothing day of the week. The only purpose of Tuesday is to remind you of everything that you failed to accomplish yesterday. So, to sweeten the oncoming dreariness, we provide a sampler of songs that will make your...

Søren Kierkegaard believed that philosophy begins, not with thought, but with existence: an egalitarian life lived passionately within a world of absurdity. George Costanza, the Seinfeldian Everyman who extracted more than should be expected from a life lived absurdly...

In which we learn that the grass is not always greener on the other side. The trouble started when I left my jacket in the car. Or maybe it started when the plane touched down in Denver. Or maybe it started in 1975... If you attended college in the 70's, you smoked...

The themes of real country music - the pleasures and aches of Life and Love - are timeless, are worth repeating. The pain you feel today is the same pain that your great grandfather felt. He was just more stoic about it because he didn't have Twitter to share his hurt...